Private Equity Is in a Class of Its Own

By

Ronald Alsop

Updated June 12, 2007 12:01 a.m. ET

Business schools are bullish on private equity.

Amid the recent flurry of deals to take public companies private, M.B.A. programs are offering more intensive private-equity courses and strengthening their connections with buyout firms to help students land jobs. At the same time, schools are trying to lure junior employees of buyout shops to their M.B.A. programs to groom them for higher-level positions in private equity.